Quick Change in Style of Gowns in New York
A fashion authority urges changes in women’s apparel as neckline designs dominate the season. Historic decolletage trends from Elizabethan to Queen Anne surge back with delta and U shapes, lace collars, and double necklines influencing midseason gowns and street wear.
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Use of fringe on a frock creates soft spiral borders
A correspondent describes a novel fringe technique for frocks. Fringes are cut long enough for spiral borders, sewn with invisible stitches along the edge, then each strand looped and secured to form a delicate soft spiral. Chenille fringe could enhance the effect.
Fringe Color Debate in Textile Design
The remark argues for using two contrasting fringe colors, such as deep blue and black, alternated in a design. It emphasizes practical and aesthetic justification for a two color fringe approach in textile work.
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Delphine
Seasonal Styles Highlight Quiet Veil and Fur Trends
Open squares showcase the latest veils with dox furs leading in muted tones. Mauris offers hats with fringe ribbons while velvet dresses are in production using dyed fabric. Grosgrain ribbon remains popular for millinery.
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Mauris
White collar fashions vary across new frocks
The article describes recent blouse and dress styles showing a range of neck treatments. Some feature no white at the throat, others use a rounded neck with a tucker, while still others display a white satin collar that rises high at the neck and extends over the bodice toward the watchword.
Get Gold Medal Haarlem Oil for Kidney Relief
Urgent ad warns kidneys liver and bladder require immediate care. It touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a long trusted remedy, claiming quick relief with two capsules daily and a money back guarantee.
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Haarlem
Etty
A Retreat of Workplace Tensions
A terse exchange reveals an employee seeking a day off to attend a party hosted by his wife. The employer presses for reasons, while the worker fears his absence could trigger a forceful confrontation if pursued. The dialogue hints at coercive dynamics and personal risk within the workplace setting.
Important to Mothers Exramine Castoria Bottles
A vintage safety reminder urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for infants and children. The ad cites signatures and claims the remedy has been used for over many years. It references a child’s need for medicine and a mother’s assurance of proper dosing.
Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin Ad
Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin. On rising and retiring, gently apply the Cuticura Ointment. Wash off Ointment in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and water. It is wonderful what Cuticura will do for poor complexions, dandruff, itching and red rough hands.
Senator Sorghum on Re election Question Outside Debate
The quotation captures Senator Sorghum declaring the pivotal issue of his possible re election as a central topic of current political focus. He emphasizes the immediacy of the electoral question amid surrounding remarks and debate dynamics.
Soft coat use makes laundry work heavier this winter
Red Cross Ball Blue cleans grime at groceries for 5c. The phonograph, first made fifty years ago, has gained lasting popularity only recently.
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Red Cross
Fragmentary prose on health and vigor from old ad copy
The readable fragments praise purity of blood and vitality, noting vigor from Lusteless chill tonic and an odd line about pumpkin pie versus a whole pumpkin. Includes stray phrases like You can soon telite and Magee, with no clear narrative.
Was Bound to Have Her
A humorous tale recalls Buddy who spots a neighbor's baby girl and rushes to the bank to buy or rent her. He tells his mother he will buy the baby, she expresses fear, and Buddy quickly softens, then repeats the plan to rent if buying fails.
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Masme
Buddy
Mother
The Reagan. There goes a crack regiment.
A fragment reflecting on military imagery and the idea that thought guides action. It notes a sharp regiment and sap as a metaphor for marching influence, suggesting a link between thoughts and deeds.
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Reagan
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